Chrysolite
Official Number
58190

The Chrysolite was built at the Whitehaven shipyard of Shepherd & Leech in June 1869. She is described in Lloyds Register as a brigantine, but, like the Beckermet, had three-masts and was what would later become known as a barquentine. She was owned by G.Nelson & Co. of Whitehaven.
 

Name
Year Built
Net Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Chrysolite
1869
 159
95.6 
21.6 
12.0 
 
 
10A1 (SS) 

Sources :

  1. Lloyds Register of Shipping 1877 (names owner as G.Nelson & Co.,master as D.Evans).
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